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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Joint Acquisitions List of Africana
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Bibliographie der Staats-und Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : Classification
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Bibliographie der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 864
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Beyond Tropical Deforestation
Author: Didier Babin
Publisher: Editions Quae
ISBN: 9782876145771
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Does the diagnosis of irreversible destruction of both forests and their biodiversity actually mask a wide range of patterns? Based on the results of natural and social scientists, this book attempts to answer fundamental questions such as: what is deforestation and how do we mesure it? What changes result from deforestation and how do human societies manage these changes? It explores the many and varied aspects of deforestation, a process whose effects are not always as negative as perceived.
Publisher: Editions Quae
ISBN: 9782876145771
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Does the diagnosis of irreversible destruction of both forests and their biodiversity actually mask a wide range of patterns? Based on the results of natural and social scientists, this book attempts to answer fundamental questions such as: what is deforestation and how do we mesure it? What changes result from deforestation and how do human societies manage these changes? It explores the many and varied aspects of deforestation, a process whose effects are not always as negative as perceived.
Reframing Deforestation
Author: James Fairhead
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415185904
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of destruction wrought by West African farmers during the twentieth century has been vastly exaggerated and global analyses have unfairly stigmatized them.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415185904
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
Reframing Deforestation suggests that the scale of destruction wrought by West African farmers during the twentieth century has been vastly exaggerated and global analyses have unfairly stigmatized them.
Scientists in the Third World
Author: Jacques Gaillard
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813117317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813117317
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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The Uncertain Quest
Author: Francisco R. Sagasti
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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"Science - "empirical knowledge" - and technology - "applied science" - have long played a key role in social development. In modern times they have come to be seen as absolutely essential factors in the achievement of economic growth and development. And though many dispute their ascendancy and legitimately point to their abuses, there is no escaping their presence and impact." "Taking as a main theme the central role of science and technology in economic progress, this first-of-a-kind sourcebook gathers together the perspectives and expertise of an international body of specialists in science and technology policy to examine the role of science and technology in development, and assess their social, economic, and political dimensions. The authors look at the key issues in relation to the exigencies of developing countries in the "new international context." They emphasize the complexity of the links between science, technology, and development and the important insights to be gained from the study of these links. The authors also point out that, despite science and technology's promise of social and economic progress, such progress is less than ever an inevitable result of their application - though there is no doubt about what can be achieved through science and technology, the quest is an uncertain one."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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"Science - "empirical knowledge" - and technology - "applied science" - have long played a key role in social development. In modern times they have come to be seen as absolutely essential factors in the achievement of economic growth and development. And though many dispute their ascendancy and legitimately point to their abuses, there is no escaping their presence and impact." "Taking as a main theme the central role of science and technology in economic progress, this first-of-a-kind sourcebook gathers together the perspectives and expertise of an international body of specialists in science and technology policy to examine the role of science and technology in development, and assess their social, economic, and political dimensions. The authors look at the key issues in relation to the exigencies of developing countries in the "new international context." They emphasize the complexity of the links between science, technology, and development and the important insights to be gained from the study of these links. The authors also point out that, despite science and technology's promise of social and economic progress, such progress is less than ever an inevitable result of their application - though there is no doubt about what can be achieved through science and technology, the quest is an uncertain one."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Morality, Hope and Grief
Author: Hansj Rg Dilger
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845456634
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
`[S]ome of the best, most thoughtful scholarship on AIDS in Africa.'---Julie Livingston, Rutgers University --
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781845456634
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
`[S]ome of the best, most thoughtful scholarship on AIDS in Africa.'---Julie Livingston, Rutgers University --
Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture
Author: Toyin Falola
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463312
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.
Narrating War and Peace in Africa
Author: Solimar Otero
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries -- that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Through their geographical, historical, and cultural scope and diversity, the chapters in Narrating War and Peace in Africa aim to challenge negative stereotypes that abound in relation to Africa in general and to its wars and conflicts in particular, encouraging a shift to more balanced and nuanced representations of the continent and its political and social climates. Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.
Publisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 1580463304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Narrating War and Peace in Africa interrogates conventional representations of Africa and African culture -- mainly in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries -- with an emphasis on portrayals of conflict and peace. While Africa has experienced political and social turbulence throughout its history, more recent conflicts seem to reinforce the myth of barbarism across the continent: in Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, Chad, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Sudan. The essays in this volume address reductive and stereotypical assumptions of postcolonial violence as "tribal" in nature, and offer instead various perspectives -- across disciplinary boundaries -- that foster a less fetishized, more contextualized understanding of African war, peace, and memory. Through their geographical, historical, and cultural scope and diversity, the chapters in Narrating War and Peace in Africa aim to challenge negative stereotypes that abound in relation to Africa in general and to its wars and conflicts in particular, encouraging a shift to more balanced and nuanced representations of the continent and its political and social climates. Contributors: Ann Albuyeh, Zermarie Deacon, Alicia C. Decker, Aména Moïnfar, Kayode Omoniyi Ogunfolabi, Sabrina Parent, Susan Rasmussen, Michael Sharp, Cheryl Sterling, Hetty ter Haar, Melissa Tully, Pamela Wadende, Metasebia Woldemariam, Jonathan Zilberg. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Hetty ter Haar is an independent researcher in England.